Sleeve button or fastener



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL J. SHAW, OF MARLBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

SLEEVE BUTTON OR FASTENER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 45.646. dated December 27, 1G64.

To all uhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL J. SHAW, of Marlborough, in the county of Middlesex and State ot' Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful or Improved Sleeve Button or Fastener; and I do hereby declare the saine to be tull y described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, ot' which- Figure lis an under-side view of it, eXhibiting its clasp as closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view of it as it appears with its clasp open. Fig. 3 is an edge view, while Figs.4 and 5 are end views ofit. Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section ot' it, the several figures being made on a scale about double the ordinary dimensions of the article.

In the said drawings, A denotes the body and B the clasp of the fastener, the said body being an elliptical or other proper shaped plate ot' metal, or being otherwise properly formed. From the under sid-e of the body a spindle orLjournal, a, projects at right angles and receives the clasp B, which turns ou the journal in a plane parallel to or about parallel to the plane of the body. At or near the opposite end of the body there is a notch or recess, b, made in the face of the body and provided either on one or each side of it with an inclined plane orl cam, c. rlhe clasp B is turned or curved down at that end of it which is to operate with the notch, and is so further Inade as to be capable ot' entering or being snapped into the notch. I `ultherlnore,I

such clasp may be provided with a rearward bend or hook, d, as shown in the drawings. Either the body or the clasp may be elastic, so as to lerrnit the engagement and disengagement ot' the clasp with the notch to be readily eti'ected, in order to produce either the fastening of the article to or its unfastening from ashirt Wristband, as circumstances may requii e. TLe purpose oi' the hook d is to prevent the cloth of a Wristband from disengaging the clasp fiom the notch. It also serves to relieve the body of the fastener from the strain ot' the Wristband.

In using the sleeve-fastener the clasp is to be passed through both button-holes of the wristban d, ai'ter which the body is to be turned around over the clasp so as to cause the latter to enter the notch of such body, which, having taken place, the Wristband will be secured by the fastener.

I claimrlhe said improved sleeve-fastener,as made in manner and so as to operate substantiallyl as described.

SAMUEL J. SHAW. /Vitnesses:

It. H. EDDY, B. J. F. GoGGINs. 

